Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, like a number of other noble Lords, I welcome the initiatives by the coalition Governme...

I support the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, on Amendment 88A, which would give parish councils ...

My Lords, I tabled an amendment in this group which covers similar ground but is not about neighb...

My Lords, the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, is very wide, albeit that it...

Does the noble Lord not accept that, were one of these neighbourhood groups to bring forward an a...

As the noble Baroness knows, the question of costs is very much in the hands of the inspector at ...

My Lords, as I have told the House many times before, I am a local councillor in Lewisham. I repr...

My Lords, Amendments 88A and 101BGA propose a community right to appeal in various circumstances....

I thank the Minister for that point but, with regard to recovering planning appeals, can she conf...

I believe that that is correct, yes.

We already have a system which ensures that the views ...

I thank the Minister for her reply and I thank all the people who have spoken in this debate. I a...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

89: Before Clause 129, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, I will be relatively brief. Amendment 89 seeks to empower the Secretary of State by reg...

My Lords, I need to make it clear that Amendment 89 is not Labour Party policy; it is my view and...

My Lords, I, too, have an amendment in this group, which I suggested should be moved up in the in...

My Lords, it is appropriate to speak after the noble Lord, Lord True, because earlier on in our p...

My Lords, this group of amendments deals with matters relating to land. I have been left in no do...

I see the point that the Minister makes about public bodies and land, but I can also think of lot...

The noble Lord makes a good point but I draw his attention again to the national planning policy,...

Not really, no. If the land is owned by Network Rail and Network Rail has no intention of doing a...

It is fair to say that we continue to work hard to press Network Rail to pick up that specific po...

Why should hope value be transformed into reality on the basis of a planner’s pen? The planner de...

I think that I explained that earlier, by saying that we needed to look at both sides, and to use...

My Lords, I will withdraw the amendment. Indeed, I said before that I would. Do I withdraw the li...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has spoken in the debate today. I know that my noble friend Lord C...

Moved by

Lord Shipley

89ZA: Clause 130, page 62, line 43, at end insert—

“(6B) ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 89ZA I will also speak to Amendments 89AZA, 89AZB and 89AZE. I will...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for his amendments. Before addressing them, I would like to...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply, which I will read carefully in Hansard. I hope that...

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

89A: After Clause 130, insert the...

My Lords, I rise to move this amendment tabled in the names of my noble friends Lord Shipley and ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for his Amendment 89A, which was spoken to by the...

I thank the Minister for his response and I agree that there is a balance to be struck between ma...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

89AZC: Clause 132, page 64, leave out lines 25 and 26

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 89AZC and speak to the rest of the group.

This is about t...

My Lords, the argument of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, superficially sounds extremely attractive...

Perhaps I can answer that before the Minister replies; I know that he may agree with the noble Lo...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for his comments. While I do not wish to repeat m...

May I ask the Minister a question before he sits down? I agree with the points made by the noble ...

I think that it would be wise to furnish the noble Lord with some more detail. For example, I hav...

I thank the noble Viscount. For a moment, I thought that he was going to mention regulation again...

My Lords, I am grateful to everybody who has taken part in this short debate. One of the differen...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

89AA: Clause 133, page 65, line 6, leave out “or combined autho...

My Lords, Clause 133 allows the Mayor of London to step in and carry out default actions on plan-...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the words of my noble friend Lord Greaves on these amendments...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Greaves and Lord Stunell, for their comments on this grou...

Yes, my Lords—I am very clear about that as well. Having heard the Minister reply to the previous...

Moved by

Lord True

89B: Schedule 11, page 152, line 24, leave out “, revision”

My Lords, at this hour I shall not venture on the patience of the Committee. I am grateful for th...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord True for his interest in improving the Bill, and I recogni...

My Lords, I accept that and look forward with interest to the letter. I leave on the record the c...